Murray v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. W. W. Evans, County Judge. The conviction in this case was had upon an information which charged the appellants with wilfully and mischievously injuring a locomotive engine, the property of the Missouri Pacific railway company, in McLennan county, Texas, on the eighth day of March, 1886. A fine of one dollar each was the penalty assessed against the appellants.
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Appeal from the County Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. W. W. Evans, County Judge. The conviction in this case was had upon an information which charged the appellants with wilfully and mischievously injuring a locomotive engine, the property of the Missouri Pacific railway company, in McLennan county, Texas, on the eighth day of March, 1886. A fine of one dollar each was the penalty assessed against the appellants. The sufficiency of the information to charge an offense against the laws of this State was the only issue upon which the case was appealed, and the transcript brings…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Omitting formal averments the information in this case charges that the defendants, James Murray and J. A. Anthony, “in the county of McLennan, in the State of Texas, on the eighth day of March, A. D. 1886, did then and there unlawfully, wilfully and mischievously injure and destroy the personal property of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, a corporation duly incorporated, by then and there wilfully and maliciously putting out the fire in an engine, and by then and there letting out and wasting and destroying the water in said engine, the same being the property of…
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